The first article I wrote for Problogger, Blog Translations: The Next Web Frontier, on the issues of blog translations and how far ahead and behind the technology of translation is on the web, was also popular. The writing article’s popularity shows that there is definitely an interest in improving your writing skills through blogging.

Celebrate WordPress Plugins: The response from the WordPress community on my request for WordPress Plugins I wanted at the end of my month long series featuring WordPress Plugins has been amazing. Another new Plugin has been added to the “Lorelle Wanted” list. The Post Preview Navigation WordPress Plugin puts back the post preview jump link in your full version WordPress blog which was removed in recent versions. This saves the scrolling finger from scrolling up and down the page to view the post as it will look when published, and back up to the edit area. Excellent. We need to nag WordPress.com to either put back the preview link or use this Plugin.

Here is a list of the following new WordPress Plugins developed to improve the handling and capabilities of your WordPress blog, because I asked and others added their voices:

I’d love to have a WordPress Plugin Marathon, encouraging and promoting the development of WordPress Plugins. What do you think? Want to get in on the planning? Let me know.

WordCamp 2007 will be July 21-22 in San Francisco for fans and developers of WordPress. There is now an official WordCamp 2007 Upcoming Events page. This is the second annual meeting and WordPress users will be attending from all over the world, possibly even me. The turnout is expected to be at least double, if not triple, from last year’s event, so make sure you make arrangements as soon as possible.

I’m finalizing my plans this week regarding my attendance and involvement in the The Successful and Outstanding Blogger Conference (SOBCon07) in Chicago, May 11-12. It’s slated to be an amazing full day of workshops by top blogging and web professionals on community building and new interactive technologies to help you build your blog and your blogging business. Space is very limited for this unusual and exciting conference.

I am so excited with the growing number of WordPress groups and meetups around the world. If you are involved or know of one, get them listed on my WordPress Events Page. I list the WordPress events I find in my WordPress Wednesday on the Blog Herald, too.

I have several other guest blogging gigs lined up and will be announcing them soon. I’m also thinking of having guest bloggers here on Lorelle on WordPress. Any recommendations? Who would you like to hear from on this blog?

Many of this week’s posts got a lot of attention. Lorelle is Naked was about my blog’s participation in the CSS Naked Day, an annual event where websites and blogs strip down to their underlying architecture, revealing that pretty is in the CSS, not necessarily in the beholder. ;-) It is a shock to see a web design worked on for so long suddenly gone, but the view of the underlying architecture is all search engines and some visually impaired and handicapped readers ever see. It’s good to know that we are beautiful under our clothes – er – CSS. ;-)

I took a few minutes to cruise the web looking for announcements of other bloggers going CSS naked. The titles announcing their nakedness for April 5th were hysterical. Some that caught my attention were:

So, I had this dream last night, and I was standing in front of the entire internet totally naked, and when I woke up, I realized it wasn’t a dream! Today marks the 2nd Annual CSS Naked Day…

While written for FeedBlitz feed email subscriptions, Integrating FeedBlitz Feed Email Service Into WordPress could easily work for any email subscription service which converts your feed into an email subscription for your readers. I learned that Feedburner now offers an email service, too. This technique is not about producing a newsletter. It turns your feed into a kind of newsletter by emailing it to those who don’t get the RSS thing.

Is Your Blog Ready for Web 3.0? caught a lot of people’s attention as they start thinking about their blog’s place in the quickly changing social atmosphere and content scraping future.

I Hate My Web Host also continues to draw a lot of attention and I’m finding that while many have very good recommendations on hosts, most people have trouble understanding what features are most important in choosing a good web host. Hopefully soon I’ll be able to come up with some helpful answers for them.

New Arrivals on Lorelle on WordPress

The powers that be at WordPress.com included Lorelle on WordPress as a noted resource for information on how to use WordPress and WordPress.com on their WordPress.com FAQ called “New Here?”, which brings a lot of new WordPress.com users. I work hard to keep the WordPress.com Community informed on changes and what is happening when possible, so I’m grateful for their support.

Want to know where my readers are visiting from my blog? The most frequented external links from this blog this week are: